Choosing Excellence in Public Schools

Where There's a Will, There's a Way

David W. Hornbeck, Katherine Conner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2009
Rowman & Littlefield Education (Verlag)
978-1-60709-155-4 (ISBN)

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Choosing Excellence in Public Schools explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the basis for low expectations. It makes clear the economic, demographic, civic, personal and moral imperative to educate all children to high standards and the consequences of not doing so. Hornbeck and Conner set forth a comprehensive, radical agenda based on proven practices and practical experience that will result in education success for virtually all children where faithfully implemented. This book breaks new ground. It establishes that the missing ingredient in school reform is the absence of values-driven, focused, well-financed, professionally staffed, technologically sophisticated grassroots expression of the public will insisting that the political, media, business, judicial and organized labor institutions that make the choices that result in our children's learning conditions make different, and effective choices. We get the education for our own children and grandchildren and those of others that we tolerate or demand.

David W. Hornbeck has spent 42 years as an educator, community organizer, and activist, serving as Maryland State Superintendent of Schools, Philadelphia Superintendent of Schools, and chair of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Carnegie Corporation's Commission on the Education of Early Adolescents, the Children's Defense Fund, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National Chapter I Commission, and the Public Education Network. Katherine Conner spent her career in the School District of Philadelphia, as a teacher, teacher coach, and administrator, finishing as Associate Superintendent for Standards, Assessment, and Social Services.

Part 1 Where There's the Will: Core Premises Built on Our Values
Chapter 2 The Power of Expectations
Chapter 3 The Origins of Low Expectations
Chapter 4 All Children Can Learn to High Standards
Chapter 5 All Children Must Learn to High Expectations
Chapter 6 We Know How to Make All Schools Effective: Children Achieving and Philadelphia Outcomes
Chapter 7 Standards
Chapter 8 Assessment
Chapter 9 Accountability
Chapter 10 Quality for Teachers
Chapter 11 Quality School Leadership
Chapter 12 Promising School Strategies (Part I): Instruction
Chapter 13 Promising School Strategies (Part II): Non-Instructional
Chapter 14 Resources
Chapter 15 The Choices We Make Determine School Effectiveness
Chapter 16 The Public Will to Make Diffferent Choices
Chapter 17 Walk the Walk: Choosing Excellence and Equity in Public Education

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2009
Reihe/Serie	New Frontiers in Education
Vorwort	Richard W. Riley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 223 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-60709-155-0 / 1607091550
ISBN-13	978-1-60709-155-4 / 9781607091554
Zustand	Neuware